ITV News Anglia

ITV News Anglia is the evening news programme produced by ITV Anglia and broadcasting to the East of England. It broadcasts for thirty minutes each Monday to Friday from 18:00, covering regional news stories, features, sport and weather. It is presented by Becky Jago or Jonathan Wills. Shorter bulletins air at other times.

ITV News Anglia
GenreRegional news
Presented byBecky Jago
Jonathan Wills
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
Production
Production location(s)Norwich, Norfolk, England
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production company(s)ITV Anglia
Release
Original networkITV Anglia
Picture format576i (SDTV 16:9)
Original release9 July 1990 (1990-07-09) –
present
Chronology
Preceded byAbout Anglia
Related showsITV News
ITV Weather
External links
Website
News van, seen in 2007

History

Anglia News replaced the long-running news magazine programme About Anglia on Monday, 9 July 1990. Initially, there were two sub-regional editions for the East (Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex), and West (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, northern Hertfordshire, northern Buckinghamshire and southern Lincolnshire).

The main programme title was amended to Anglia News Tonight in September 2003 however just five months later in February 2004 it was simplified to Anglia Tonight. Both editions were broadcast from Norwich.

By 2008, Anglia News opts during GMTV and weekend bulletins had become pan-regional.

As of 12 February 2009, all programming on weekdays became pan-regional. The final sub-regional 6pm editions of Anglia Tonight were broadcast on Wednesday 11 February 2009. Becky Jago and Jonathan Wills anchored the programme in 2012.[1]

The then remaining sub-regional elements were:

  • A 6-minute opt-out during the main 6pm programme.
  • The full 8-minute late weeknight bulletins.
  • Localised weather forecasts.

Both sub-regional editions utilise exactly the same presenter(s) and studio/set, therefore one of the two opt-outs - depending on the day's news - is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast.[2]

On Monday, 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ITV News Anglia.[3]

On 23 July 2013, proposals for a more localised Channel 3 news service were approved - ITV News Anglia reintroduced separate East and West programmes with a minimum of 20 minutes local news content during the half hour 6pm programme, in addition to separate weekday daytime and weekend bulletins for the two sub-regions.[4] The expanded sub-regional service launched on Monday 16 September 2013.

From March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sub-regional services are impacted. Running times of all short bulletins are reduced. The main 6pm programme is now fronted by a single presenter instead of two.

References
  1. Meet the team at ITV News Anglia ITV News, 4 March 2012
  2. Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run Caitlin Fitzsimmons, The Guardian, 17 February 2009
  3. ITV launches rebrand on air and online, itv.com, 14 January 2013.
  4. OFCOM sets out licence terms for ITV, STV, UTV and Channel 5 Archived 26 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine, OFCOM, 23 July 2013
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